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PUBLICATIONS “Mothers in the Workplace” is a national study of the special needs of families in which mothers with young children work outside their homes. The project is sponsored by the Center... Read more »
The struggle to juggle work and life: a Lilith survey. Motherhood and the “new” infertility. A Roaring 20s Yiddish lesbian play. Sarah vs. Hagar in the Bible.
Table of contents Get the issueThe Biblical women who created the historical rivalries of two religious traditions.
Sara Nelson reports on a Jewish social worker who decided to bear a child for an infertile couple. "Very Jewish," claims the birth mother.
Shirley Frank examines what has changed in women’s lives since she wrote about "The Population Panic" in LILITH ten years ago.
Orthodox women who believe that a man is forbidden to hear a woman sing say "No Men Allowed" at their increasingly popular performances.
The Roaring 20’s lesbian play that rocked Broadway came from the pen of Yiddish writer Sholom Asch.
In search of the women behind the statistics, we spoke with six Jewish career women. They range from ultra-Orthodox to culturally Jewish, from entrepreneurs to professionals in the stock market and... Read more »
What the Jewish career woman has to contend with, and how the community (to say nothing of her significant others) can make it better. A report on the recent Lilith /American Jewish Committee survey by Dr. Rela Geffen Monson, plus six close-ups of working women.
THE ELUSIVE WOMAN EDUCATOR To the Editor: I was very surprised to see that Dr. Elliot Spack, executive director of the Coalition on Alternatives in Jewish Education (CAJE), feels that... Read more »